Carrie Fisher already looked and was terrible in "The 'Burbs" (1989)

Yeah, 2000 is when she looks abruptly older, but nothing in that time lapse made me think she was doing anything other than aging normally. I had already read that she was hitting the drugs and booze, but based on the time lapse I wouldn’t have thought “there’s someone who’s hitting the booze and drugs.”

This will probably come as a shock to people like the OP, but fully half of all people look older for their age than average. Horrors!

I saw her on some Brit Christmas panel show and she looked like she had days to live. A perfectly reasonable look for someone who DID have days to live. :frowning:

I’m a 32 year old woman, and looking at the screenshots if I saw someone looking like her in real life I might think she was older than me, but only because of her hair and clothes. She plays a long-suffering housewife in that movie and looks like it. Change her hair and clothes and she’d look younger and better. It reminds me of when I was on the yearbook committee in high school, and we’d look through the yearbooks from the '60s, and a lot of the high school kids looked to us like they were in their 30s. I’m sure some genuinely looked older, but a lot of it was just because styles had just changed so much.

First of all, do you think that there is not a double standard for men and women regarding looks? Both in Hollywood and in real life?

Second, I don’t think it’s misogyny to say that she didn’t look fantastic in The Force Awakens. I don’t think she looked terrible, I thought she looked fine, but I wouldn’t think someone was crazy if they thought she looked bad. The misogyny was when some people went on and on about it, and acted like she betrayed everyone by not staying young and hot, and like she shouldn’t have been in the movie. She doesn’t look like she did in the first three movies, but neither does Harrison Ford, and I don’t remember that being a big deal that everyone was talking about. Part of that is because she’s been doing less acting than him and has been out of the spot light, so it is more jarring to see how she’s changed over the years while we’ve seen Ford age in his movies. But it is also partly because men are allowed to grow old and it not be as big of a deal, but aging women are often replaced by younger hotter women.

The 'burbs is a fun little movie. Self-contained and actually catches the ‘vibe’ of many US suburbs (murdering neighbours aside).

Thought Fisher looked decent in it but ymmv.

The OP should really stop digging because it’s starting to come across as a little bit creepy.

I’ve seen Barbarella. It wasn’t good, but it was a lot less painful to sit through than The 'Burbs.

Haven’t seen the other two. Caligula was, of course, infamously bad.

YMMV, but I’d say it was more than a little creepy before the end of the OP.

Unrealistic and creepy. Face it: Eddie looked…okay. His wives were beautiful, but the mix of DNA is likely to point to attractive than rather hot. Carrie was very attractive, in a normal way. Joely hit the jackpot, given the cards she was dealt, but complained that her dates would say, “Wow, your mom (Connie Stevens) is hot.”

And Joely is still more “hottest woman in the PTA” than any shallower, Hollywood-based criterion.

Have I explained why I liked PTA meetings? :wink:

Bozo: Oops, its a mom. :wink:

YUP. Creepy and weird.

I liked the Burbs.
Didn’t realize Carrie Fisher was in it, but never thought to myself “Who is that ghastly troll of a woman playing the wife? She’s totally ruining this film!” (But how about that Tom Hanks guy!? Is he a cutie of what! Huh? Huh!)

For all its faults, I liked The Force Awakens, and I thought Carrie Fisher was just fine in it.
Matter of fact, I thought she looked better than either Harrison Ford or Mark Hamill, who both look pretty good for their age.

As for this OP, it was ugly from the start, and age hasn’t improved it over two pages.

Some issues:

Seriously, you think this is niceness? “God she looked awful in her 30s, but she was cute and spunky in her 20s. OK, pleasantries over.”
Good sir, I doubt your sincerity.

OK, so “everyone” said Carrie Fisher looked terrible (because at 60 she didn’t look like she did at 19?),
But then anyone who suggested that was a double standard (and presumably isn’t included in “everyone”?) is a pissy “SJW”?

[Bites tongue This is not the Pit. This. is. not. the. Pit.]

So . . . she looked 8 years older than you thought she should look. In a film.
Hey, check out this sad, wrinkly old fart. Can you believe he was only in his 43rd year when he was in that film? God, he looks 60, easily.

. . .

People get old.
Drugs and booze can fuck you up.
Expecting an actress to remain an eternal Hollywood starlet is unfair and unrealistic.

I approve everything about this post, but mostly “HOLY FUCKBALLS”.
4 stars. Would read again.

Holy fuckballs! That was a long post.

Hey thanks! And it only looks long because of all the quotes.

ha!

I liked it, would watch it again. It was unusual, something I like.